Colbert Bests Obama, Wins Marvel White House

(Editor’s note: Electoral College chaos has rocked the Marvel Universe: The Daily Bugle is now reporting that Barack Obama has squeaked into the Marvel White House on electoral votes, despite Stephen Colbert’s having won the popular vote. Read all about it in "Bugle Blows It — Obama Beats Colbert on Marvel Electoral Votes.")

Sure, Barack Obama, you may rule the real world now. But hyper-real comedian Stephen Colbert has claimed the presidency in the Marvel Universe, beating out both your audacity of hope and John McCain’s capacity for mope.

Marvel’s Daily Bugle headline is hot off the presses and details are sketchy for now, but it looks like the ballot results will be celebrated in Amazing Spider-Man No. 574. And no doubt the Bugle’s freelance shutterbug Peter Parker, and his arachnid alter ego Spider-Man, had a hand in the victory. As Underwire reported in its earlier piece on Colbert and Spidey, the truthiness squad was catching fire and was scheduled for a landslide. That landslide has come at last, at least in the Marvel Universe, which according to Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada, was more interesting than our own.

"Stephen tried to run for president in our boring universe," Quesada explained in our earlier interview, "but unfortunately his campaign was stymied by the powers that be. Not so in the Marvel Universe, where his campaign is in full swing and gaining momentum, once again proving that we would all rather be living in the Marvel Universe than the real one."

Underwire asked Quesada on Wednesday to comment on whether Obama’s super Tuesday win has changed his opinion on that, or whether he’s sticking with Colbert as his preferred president. He was suitably evasive, but he had a good reason. He smelled trouble.

"While I personally throw my support behind whomever is elected our Commander-in-Chief, I’m calling for a recount as I feel there may have been some voting improprieties," Marvel’s honcho complained. "With Mr. Colbert’s hard-line stance against illegal aliens such as the shape-shifting Skrulls, I suspect foul play of the intergalactic variety!"